May 2015
ADAD Trailblazer Starters Fellowships announced
The Association of Dance of the African Diaspora have announced the participants on their professional development programme for this year.. Continue Reading
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz and Amandine Beyer - Partita 2 - Sadler's Wells
It was as though Bach’s Partita No. 2 had lifted us up & up, floating in the vacuum of space & now the grainy slides of Charmatz and De Keersmaekers trainers on the stage floor were bringing us back… Continue Reading
Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse - Aatt enen tionon - Sadler's Wells
Nudity in dance is always loaded, always more than absence of costume. Often it’s born of a kind of messianic puritanism: the conviction, on the part of the choreographer, that the audience, in some sense, needs “liberating”. But this isn’t Charmatz’s game at all.
Salim-Sulaiman - Beyond Bollywood - London Palladium
Beyond Bollywood is a riot. The huge cast of this shameless, feel good extravaganza, playing til the end of June, generates enough energy to light up nearby Oxford Circus for a fortnight.
Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse — manger - Sadler's Wells
For my part I maybe didn’t fully embrace 'manger', perhaps, but I’m glad I experienced it... Continue Reading
The Place and Battersea Arts Centre team up
Starting next week, the two venues will be joining forces to present two weeks of genre-busting shows which refuse to be categorised as dance or theatre. Continue Reading
Ben Duke on becoming a Countryside Choreographer
The Artistic Director of Lost Dog explains why he moved from London to East Sussex in search of space and inspiration. Continue Reading
The Place announces Choreodrome 2015 artists
The 30 dance artists will be supported to research and develop performance ideas and explore new artistic territory over the summer. Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Woolf Works - Royal Opera House
The mesmerisingly beautiful Alessandra Ferri, a revenant from the Royal Ballet’s 1980s, now aged 52, is still unequalled in her dramatic empathy with asthenia and the pain of living.
Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse - manger - Sadler's Wells
You’re grudgingly glad the piece exists, but whether you’d ever, ever want to see it again is quite another matter
English National Ballet move East
English National Ballet and English National Ballet School today announce plans for a new joint home in East London. The move will bring under one roof one of the world’s leading ballet companies with a world … Continue Reading
Olympicopolis architects appointed
Allies & Morrison, the architects responsible for Rambert's new South Bank home will be designing the new cultural & education quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where Sadler’s Wells … Continue Reading
If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse? - Musée de la danse in London
For me the magic of the dancing museum is hidden in the interactions between the visitors and the dancers. The opportunity to informally chat to them and ask questions is a gift.... Continue Reading
Dance Umbrella 2015 - on sale now!
From dancing in carparks, to a nightclub takeover, a show for babies and walks in the park - as well as shows at the Barbican, The Place and Sadler's Wells, Dance Umbrella 2015 is sure to surprise... Continue Reading
Boris Charmatz & Musée de la danse - Aatt enen tionon - Sadler's Wells
So, what was Charmatz’s point? All the tenets of (modern and/or post-modern) dance – that is, of bodies in time and space - were well-defined. The movement itself was set yet raw, vigorous yet rigorous... Continue Reading